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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8213484" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>It really isn't I can often go back and watch movies I feel nostalgia for and realize they were way more corny and way less effective than I remember (and honestly most of the time, that is what happens with a given movie). I think a lot of people dismiss old art and old media as "that's just your nostalgia talking", To me that is kind of closed minded. Newer doesn't automatically mean better. Good is good, and will stand the test of time in any era. There is a lot of crap in the hammer catalog, a lot of weird, but also a lot of really solid horror movies. When I sit down to watch all of the hammer frankensteins back to back, that is nostalgia. When I sit down to watch Curse of Frankenstein, it's because I think it is a genuinely good horror movie. Also these were movies that were made well before I was born. I am more prone to nostalgia glasses if the film was made in the 80s, since then it does get harder for me to distinguish. But I think if you go back and watch classic movies with open eyes you see many of them are brilliant. You just have to get over the context and that things were done differently in different eras (for example a lot of old movies use sets and that makes it harder for viewers who aren't use to sets, but I think sets add a level of immersion that sometimes you can't capture with things filmed outdoors at real locations----those have their own advantages, but sets add a dreamy immersive quality to movies). You also start to see some of these older movies are filmed in truly stunning ways. Go back and watch some of those silent films and many of them look like paintings and works of visual art (and they can even get quite surreal). There is value in going back and seeing where things came from (if you ever try to sit down and watch the evolution of kung fu and wuxia films for example from say just the mid-60s on, you will definitely see that).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8213484, member: 85555"] It really isn't I can often go back and watch movies I feel nostalgia for and realize they were way more corny and way less effective than I remember (and honestly most of the time, that is what happens with a given movie). I think a lot of people dismiss old art and old media as "that's just your nostalgia talking", To me that is kind of closed minded. Newer doesn't automatically mean better. Good is good, and will stand the test of time in any era. There is a lot of crap in the hammer catalog, a lot of weird, but also a lot of really solid horror movies. When I sit down to watch all of the hammer frankensteins back to back, that is nostalgia. When I sit down to watch Curse of Frankenstein, it's because I think it is a genuinely good horror movie. Also these were movies that were made well before I was born. I am more prone to nostalgia glasses if the film was made in the 80s, since then it does get harder for me to distinguish. But I think if you go back and watch classic movies with open eyes you see many of them are brilliant. You just have to get over the context and that things were done differently in different eras (for example a lot of old movies use sets and that makes it harder for viewers who aren't use to sets, but I think sets add a level of immersion that sometimes you can't capture with things filmed outdoors at real locations----those have their own advantages, but sets add a dreamy immersive quality to movies). You also start to see some of these older movies are filmed in truly stunning ways. Go back and watch some of those silent films and many of them look like paintings and works of visual art (and they can even get quite surreal). There is value in going back and seeing where things came from (if you ever try to sit down and watch the evolution of kung fu and wuxia films for example from say just the mid-60s on, you will definitely see that). [/QUOTE]
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